This is so weird.....weird face experiment

[pugwash84]

Sean Murphy was looking at sets of faces for one of his experiments when he observed something really freaky. Skimming fairly rapidly through pictures of two faces side-by-side, Murphy started noticing that some of the people he had pictures of had grotesque and deformed faces. But when he looked at the pictures again, this time individually, they all looked normal.


http://technabob.com/blog/2011/07/10/flashed-face-distortion-effect/



http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wM6lGNhPujE

[seantimberwolf]

Hmmmm very intresting, possible hybrids.
Maybe the mind uses periferal vision to find these off worlders?

[pugwash84]

I am not sure what it is, people are saying it's an optical illusion but at the back of my mind I thought maybe we all look different like this but we just think we look human.

[bekrah]

I wonder if it's the brain storing a little image of the last picture, and combining it with the present picture to form a new, albeit brief very strange picture.

[the_vast_mystery]

I wonder if it's the brain storing a little image of the last picture, and combining it with the present picture to form a new, albeit brief very strange picture.

Most likely this, but that doesn't mean there's not the possibility of "spirit" guiding the process to give you a specific signal. I've been awake long enough before to begin hallucinating and when I began to test the hallucinations I came to the conclusion that they were created through fuzzy visual data (I'm nearsighted, astigmatism and was also very tired) combined with my mind then adding its own assumed spin to the fuzzy image and creating a composite in my mind that seemed just as valid as other images...until I would focus my gaze straight on the object. (The hallucination would only remain apparent and visible so long as I kept it to my peripheral vision) In my own case there was just not enough shape or color consistency for me to say my hallucinations were actually representative of something outside of myself but with some of the stranger things I've seen I'll admit it is possible.

But what would be being seen, whether real or not, would still be a creation of mind. This is where discernment comes in and I can advise no further, as I have as of yet to establish any protocols to empirically verify what would be "Real" or "unreal" as I've never experienced any sort of consistent shapes/colors/etc that would be a sign of the image being sourced from outside of myself rather than being a creation of tiredness and ego. It was pretty much just the typical seeing of vague shadowy shapes in varying degrees of my periphery.

[bekrah]

I wonder if it's the brain storing a little image of the last picture, and combining it with the present picture to form a new, albeit brief very strange picture.

Most likely this, but that doesn't mean there's not the possibility of "spirit" guiding the process to give you a specific signal. I've been awake long enough before to begin hallucinating and when I began to test the hallucinations I came to the conclusion that they were created through fuzzy visual data (I'm nearsighted, astigmatism and was also very tired) combined with my mind then adding its own assumed spin to the fuzzy image and creating a composite in my mind that seemed just as valid as other images...until I would focus my gaze straight on the object. (The hallucination would only remain apparent and visible so long as I kept it to my peripheral vision) In my own case there was just not enough shape or color consistency for me to say my hallucinations were actually representative of something outside of myself but with some of the stranger things I've seen I'll admit it is possible.

But what would be being seen, whether real or not, would still be a creation of mind. This is where discernment comes in and I can advise no further, as I have as of yet to establish any protocols to empirically verify what would be "Real" or "unreal" as I've never experienced any sort of consistent shapes/colors/etc that would be a sign of the image being sourced from outside of myself rather than being a creation of tiredness and ego. It was pretty much just the typical seeing of vague shadowy shapes in varying degrees of my periphery.

I could see it (no pun intend :P) like that. They say we are receiving a massive amount of information, it might be our subconscious, or perhaps our belief systems/level of awareness which picks and chooses what we see...or something.

[meat suit]

interesting optical illusion,
its a little bit like binaural beats, where the brain makes up 1 note from 2 different ones that are played into left and right ear seperately.
so, in this case the brain tries to combine 2 faces into one, and depending on what 2 faces are chosen in the stereo picture, the result is more or less pleansant to look at.

[RMorgan]

interesting optical illusion,
its a little bit like binaural beats, where the brain makes up 1 note from 2 different ones that are played into left and right ear seperately.
so, in this case the brain tries to combine 2 faces into one, and depending on what 2 faces are chosen in the stereo picture, the result is more or less pleansant to look at.

Yep. It´s the same thing as looking at the space between a yellow and a blue dot; in the end, all you´ll see is a green dot in the middle.

Our brain combines the two images in a very weird way.

Cheers,

Raf.

[wynderer]

my rebellious brain did not comply & all this did was make my eyes tired

i'm suspicious of anything that makes Humans look ugly -- ''preety girls look ugly' -- i seldom see TV or any massmedia, but when i do, i am struck by how insulting to Humans a lot of ads are -- & i don't think it's Humans doing this

[danceblackcatdance]

a camera is a single lens fixed perspective taking a snapshot of a 3D object, so any slight change in angle will yield a different flat representation of a face.... if you're into online dating beware :D

also if you check out tantric 'soul gazing', people often see their partners face changing in front of them.. apparently its past lives showing etc..